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Newt Gingrich Now Against Filthy Excesses of Capitalism, What?

Here is a thing that Newt Gingrich said in New Hampshire, Newt Gingrich, he said this, are you ready for it? GET READY: “You have to ask the question, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?” AHAHAHAHA. This is like taking three giant dumps on the grave of Ronald Reagan and then planting a Soviet flag on top, basically. It is also common sense, which means that it is not an idea native to Newt Gingrich. Maybe he stole it from the sign of one of the Occupy Wall Street protesters hanging outside his New Hampshire headquarters Monday?

No, he’s just redistributing their message like a common socialist, in order to whine about Mitt Romney’s exploitative career at Bain Capital. Has Newt Gingrich always earned his millions super-duper fair and square in exactly the way he has presented it to the public? WE WILL NEVER KNOW, because he refuses to release the files.

Newtie claimed he couldn’t release his contract with Freddie Mac because the company wouldn’t let him, to which Freddie Mac said, eh, we don’t care if you release it. So where’s the contract, then?

A lawyer for a consulting firm founded by former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he was barring the release of a contract between the Republican presidential candidate and Freddie Mac.

Gingrich said last week it would be up to his partners in his former company, the Center for Health Transformation, to determine whether to release the documents. Earlier, he said he would be happy to release the contract, yet couldn’t make it public because Freddie Mac, the mortgage company now under U.S. conservatorship, refused to waive a confidentiality agreement.

Freddie Mac officials said last week that Gingrich was “welcome” to release the contract, under which his consulting firm was paid at least $1.6 million over eight years for his services.

Newt will have you know: he is more than willing to present the facts as documented, and procured a copy ready for our scrutiny – – but then someone's danged pet goat ate 'em.

SorosBot

“You have to ask the question, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?”

Yes, Newt, it is. Now I know you're trying to defend capitalism and so label Bain's actions as somehow not real capitalism, but no, it's actually the soul of free market capitalism; completely predatory and amoral, a sociopathic system that destroys the lives of normal people. That's why we need the government regulations that your party has and continues to try to destroy; capitalism only works without destroying the country with a strong government to rein in its excesses.

memzilla

Shorter version: "Is Our Children Grifting?"

SayItWithWookies

Newt's staked out the unique position of being a big-government-small-government-laissez-faire regulator. He's in favor of reigning in the excesses of capitalism as long as it happens after he cashes in and doesn't cost him any votes.

emmelemm

Stop being so right, and articulate about it.

GOPCrusher

He's going to have a tough time convincing the voters of America to vote for him over the Socialist Policies of President Obama, with that as his campaign slogan.
Maybe he should leave Zucotti Park and get a job, filthy hippie.

Bonghits4Jesus

Needz more Goatse

BaldarTFlagass

Oh man, there's that goat again! woo-hoo!

arihaya

if Obummer says what Newt said, wingnuts and teabaggers will march into White House with torchs, pitchforks and a noose

YouBetcha

Yeah, well, you know. Black people. Class warfare. Race riots.

bureaucrap

"paid at least $1.6 million over eight years for his services."

His "historian" gig was primarily sitting at home watching the History Channel and eating 5 lbs of hush puppies, M-F, 10-11am. Tough job but somebody's got to do it.

memzilla

Hey Newt, perhaps your own greasy viscous slime-trail of greed is why you're not getting any traction in your campaign.

That's a picture of Newt and the future fourth Mrs. Gingrich. Callista is gonna be so pissed!

BaldarTFlagass

“You have to ask the question, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?”

Is that a question? It seems more like an answer.

Radiotherapy

Next on the Slippery Slope News: Newt Gingrich Supports Tax Hikes on the Rich. He concurs that government policies over the last thirty years have only benefitted the top 1% and this economic inequality is at the core of our dire financial situation.

GOPCrusher

Hilarity ensues.

JackDempsey1

It took a while, but now Mr. Newt knows what we all know:
No business should
1. exploit the worker
2. exploit the land or natural resources

Basically, the only ethical behavior involves jabbing the dirt with sticks for no pay, and even this is suspect.

slithytoves

You have to ask the question, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

Um, yeah.
Wait, that was a rhetorical question, wasn't it?
That one was, too.

paris biltong

Hey, Newt, where does your buddy Sheldon Adelson get his money from? Hard work? Producing wealth for the nation?

Biff

Since most of Adelson's wealth is now derived from his holdings in Macau, I'd have to say that foreign munnies have indeed tainted our electoral process.

Veritas78

However loathsome he truly is, Sheldon is actually one of the rare Americans able to pry any spoils of our squandered empire back from the Chinée. As opposed to, say, Alice Walton, who profited by our decline.

Han flaw = Gambling = Profit!

paris biltong

﻿ <DIV>The US government is getting back even larger sums by taking advantage of the Chinese's love of gambling, by getting them to buy US Treasuries.</DIV> <DIV style=”FONT: 10pt arial”>

SayItWithWookies

"From each according to his ability, to each according to the size of his revolving account at Tiffany's."

— Gingrich, Das Kapital, or A Work of Speculative Economics as a Reflection of Shit that Happens to Me.

Callyson

Even though Freddie Mac is willing to allow the document to be made public, allowing a release of the documents in this case might put the confidentiality of other Center for Health Transformation clients at risk, said Stefan Passantino, an attorney representing the firm.
“The risks of any kind of confidentiality waiver, even if the company tried to limit it to one client or one document, are too great to be feasible,” Passantino said in an e-mail yesterday. “A limited waiver is not possible and I am unable to authorize such a release.”
Yes, because simple precautions such as redacting client names are just too risky…
Moran.

"Besides, we already gave Newt a 'full release' by signing that contract," Passantino said while cleaning his hands with sanitizer and changing the sticky sheet on the massage table.

BigDumbRedDog

“You have to ask the question, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?”

Um, yes. Yes, I think the last thirty years or so have answered this question in the affermative.

chascates

Hey, the Center for Health Transformation's web site contains mainly right-wing buzz phrases but some surprisingly socialistic ideas:Require physical education five days a week for every student in grades K through 12.
School lunches, breakfasts, and vending machines in public schools should promote healthy foods, so that unhealthy alternatives are penalized or prohibited.
Students should be weighed, their body mass index calculated, and the results and relevant educational material sent home to parents. http://www.healthtransformation.net/cs/insure_all…

Maybe Newt and FLOTUS have some things in agreement.

Chichikovovich

That's just because Newt's gotten lots of donations from Big Tofu and the washed-up coaches lobby.

Generation[redacted]

Of course, it makes sense he would go to Freddie Mac with these initiatives.

chicken_thief

Now that he has the much coveted Tawd endorsement, Newt's really going for the Romney jugular.

BigDumbRedDog

No way will I be tricked into clicking on that link again. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice and I have to rinse my eyes out with bleach.

PsycWench

I have learned from the mistakes of others.

fartknocker

Never trust a Republican millionaire fat fuck candidate for POTUS who takes $5 million from the SuperPac of a Las Vegas casino owner who is anti-union and is under investigation for his corporation's activities in Macau.

Be sure to remember that about Newt when the primary comes to your town.

Gainsbourg69

Patria o muerte.

– Newt Gingrich

Radiotherapy

A NSFWonkette would be helpful.

Lionel[redacted]Esq

Wait, if the OWS movement is now the philosophical center of most of the Republican party, does this mean that we will have Obama dressing up in a tricorn hat and demanding that the government stop interfering with Medicare?

Probably yes.

Chichikovovich

"You have to ask the question, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?"

As it happens, as any real PhD historian thinker history ideas man thinker like Newt surely knows, this question has been asked before. By Karl Marx. And his answer was "Yes, of course" in Das Kapital. (Second, retitled edition: Der Arbeitsbeschaffung)

paris biltong

Whereas, on the other hand, communism is the same thing.

Chichikovovich

Very true. Apologies for posting a recent joke from Russia I posted a few months ago, but it seems to fit here.A couple of old babushkas who lost their make-work jobs and pensions after the collapse of the Soviet Union were shivering in a long line waiting for charity bread rations. The stretchlimousine of a Putin-connected post-breakup oil billionaire speeds by, toward a trendy nightclub projecting searchlights onto the clouds. As the limo passes, it throws up a wave of icy water over the two women.One says to the other: You know it is true what they say: you are never too old to learn new things. Why all my life I've known that Marx was wrong about communism. But now I've learned he sure was right about capitalism.—

paris biltong

﻿ <DIV>My own succinct and previously citedtake on this topic is: “Capitalism is the exploitation of men by men, whereas communism is the opposite.”</DIV> <DIV style=”FONT: 10pt arial”>

I'm going to start a PAC where I collect donations so that I can offer Newtles $1 million Ameros in campaign cash if he will wear a diaper and sing "im a little teapot" for a video that he posts to youtube. The fat little whore will be prancing and dancing before the ink is dry on the check.

Oh what is this shit?! Next he'll be cutting a TV spot with Queen Nancy Pelosi about global warming!!

ShaveTheWhales

Princess, please. I'm still hoping she goes back to Queen next January.

OneYieldRegular

Yet another reason why I'm supporting Barry with even more fervor this time around. If the political world in which he's President has come to Newt Gingrich lambasting the unfairness of capitalism, then Barry must be doing something right.

What's next? Is he going to decry the increasing commercialization of Christmas and tell people look beyond the holiday's “superficial glitter” to discover its true meaning? Is he going to follow up by telling us to be kind to the poor and infirm?

Antispandex

"…release the contract, under which his consulting firm was paid at least $1.6 million over eight years for his services."

The Palin endorsement isn't enough to make this go away? What is wrong with the press in this country lately?

lochnessmonster

Center for Health Transformation? Did he transform his from bad to worse?